Mine has to be the Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox 3 20GB, I bought it for $196 online last year and the hdd kept
freezing up. I had to reset it to start it up because the power button stopped working. I got p**sed and called Creative and they told me to return it so I did. Then I waited like 6 months to buy another MP3 player. I bought a 15GB Apple iPod. It may not have as much ports and sh*t but it plays music.

The 2nd biggest piece of crap I ever bought was a $1487 Dell Dimension 4550. I stil have it but my next pc I am building my own.

Post your pieces of crap.

LOLOLOLOL, I never buy crap..

Umm the worst ting i ever got PC related must be a 350 slot A P2 or was it 3? it had a 4 MB graphics card and 128 PC166 sd ram..still it did blow away my mates NEW pak bell 1.7 celeron away... mind you in my opinion its the bigest load of crap ive seen, he payed £750 for it (that about 1400 dolars) its got rimm ram, a dvd/cd rw X4 and a 48 dvd /cd rom, i have been servicing it, the bios chages to jap when you try to adjust the bios setting its perfromance is the same as a amd 600 with 34mb graphics and 128 PC100 ram LOL
you dont even want to know how many viruses trojans , spyware and ghosted OS were on it.. I just valued it at 100 GBP. he'll be happy, its only a year old...... I told not to goto a retailer for a PC.. (one of the big highstreet names)

I used to buy Intel systems. What a waste.
AST 486DX - 1992 - $2000
HP P3 600 - 1999 - $2000
My current PC - 2003/4 - $700
Now tell me, why do people pay so much for computers?

Agreed Carter. Anything with the name Intel on it is crap.

i would have to say a forsa 5600xt video card
almost smashed it but i managed to control my urge and got my money back

I have 2 that come to mind. Year 1999 looking for a gaming machine and was duped into picking up an AMD K6-2 500 96MB PC100, 10GB ATA33, 8MB ATI Crap. (Luckily only alittle over $1000.) Year 2000, THEN to upgrade and accually make use of this thing I got a Voodoo 5 5500 64MB. It ran UnrealTournament real well and half-life, but couldn't run Deus Ex for s**t (also came out in 2000.) Although the original Deus Ex doesn't run too well on high end machines now a days (poorly coded, but one of the best games ever), but it really p**sed me off at the time.

WOW, the biggest Pice of computer crap I ever bought was a Packard Bell computer with a 1.3GHz AMD Athon. We bought it on 2nd Jan 2002, and it had:

AMD Athlon 1.3GHz (s**t!!!!)
128MB PC133 SDRAM
Integrated ProSavage 32MB Graphics (leaving 96MB available to Windows XP)
20GB 5,400 UDMA-66 Hard Drive
CD-ROM/CD-RW Combo Drive

This computer was slower than my dad's Pentium 2 333MHz, and took ages to do anything, at all. It crashed in every game even at the lowest setting, it then crashed badly with a MACHINE_CHECK_ERROR on bootup and refused to load XP so an engineer came out and said the ard drive needed to be replaced... and in the end it had 3 new hard drives, 5 engineers, all of which were incompetant and stupid; and it had a new motherboard. Then it died again and I kicked it, and I got it sent back and got a full refund. It lasted 6 months. BIGGEST PIECE OF s**t EVER Early Athlons were slower than P2's

I find it funny though that if I had waited another 2 months, I could have ended up with the Pentium 4 or the Athlon Thunderbird. Let me tell you, back then I would've loved the P4 but now I"d have taken the T-Bird any day!

ATI TV WONDER PCI...
daaamn, never worked

Creative DXR3 DVD encoder, Creative never did release a driver that I could use! What a waste of £80:00!

My first house

Oh... you mean computers... why didn't you say so?

Since I upgrade my machines a piece at a time big mistakes are almost impossible... but it probably has to be the Pentium Pro 150 that I bought yonks ago. Good processor, ahead of its time... but it was too expensive.

Prang

Oh yeah, another crap computer, a Apple Macintosh SE, with it's 9 1/2 inch monochrome screen, rubbish basic GUI and word processor that took 40 seconds to load

Hang on.......

Just seeing how long Microsoft Word takes to load on my Pentium 4 PC......

Urm...........

About 1.5 seconds

Now that's faster than my Apple Mac was, by about 26 times to be precise

This didn't happen to me, but a guy in Germany paid top dollar for a state of the art machine, and it didn't even boot up. The reason? All the internal components had been replaced by potato chips.

No he didn't. He brought the PCback and said it was full of potatoes. They gave him another one and he brought that one back the next day and tried it on a different sales person and got arrested. If it had been in the US he probably would have got on the TV program Americas dumbest crooks.

The biggest piece of crap. A new 1985 Dodge Caravan.

Here is the potato PC story:

"Shop staff at a Nexos computer shop in Kaiserslautern, Germany, were momentarily bewildered when a man returned a computer that had been filled with potatoes.

It looked like an ordinary, everyday complaint at first. The customer came back to the shop, which is part of a department store, and apparantly gave the staff a bit of a hard time, insisting that the computer he'd bought just a few hours before was faulty. They took the machine in for repair, but, when the case was opened, they discovered that all the working parts had been replaced with potatoes.

Nevertheless, the staff graciously replaced the machine for free, but the story took an even further nosedive into the surreal when the customer returned a couple of hours later with the new, again apparantly broken, computer and demanded a cash refund. Once again the machine had been packed full of potatoes, and the staff alerted the local police, who arrested the customer.

A police spokesman from the western town of Kaiserslautern confirmed the customer's return to the store, saying the 'the second time he said he didn't need a computer any more and asked for his money back in cash'.

According to 'The Guardian' newspaper, a technician from the shop tried to find a reason for the potatoes being inside the machine in the first place, saying 'it's hard to imagine how the potatoes could get into a computer's casing. When computers leave the factory, they are packed in plastic to prevent damage from condensation'.

He went on to point out that if computers 'run for a long time they get hot, and in theory it would be possible to cook a potato in a computer, but who would try that?'"

No, I don't really know either, at least, not unless you'd peeled the potatoes first. Anyone up for a chip-pan PC mod?!

K62-475 on a SIS chipset board (you know hte chipset....730 or somthing)

POS.

Bad thing is it was bought for a client (non-profit so they needed ot go cheap) - I spent more time with that box than the total cost was - so I bought and installed a new PC.

msi 5600xt...

not just because of the poor card in general...

or the fact that i paid over £100 for it as they'd just come out...

but the fact that i kept getting crashes and artifacts and all because they couldn't be bothered to put enough paste on the heatsink to make the card work at stock speed...

(hate msi)

Gray

Mine is the Sony Net Work Station (NWS-3865). It weighs 50 lbs, runs at 25 MHz, and has an old school tape drive instead of a floppy drive. I can't even connect it to a monitor because it has 3 RGB pins instead of the VGA connectors on the modern monitors.

I just thought of another one...

Coca-Cola

i have an athlon 1.2 ghz and it still is faster than P2s and most P3s. it's not s**tty at all, maybe you just had a s**tty motherboard and s**tty ram. before u blow a cpu, think about the other pieces of hardware that make the system tick. you could buy the best cpu and have the s**ttiest motherboard/ram combo and still run slower than a snail.

athlon t-bird 1.2 ghz
msi mobo
kingston 256mb ddr x 2